"It’s the Time to Move On" by Ekta Singha
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper
Dimensions: 12 x 8 in
Year: 2017
About the artwork (Artist's note)
“The crux of my work is the personal interpretation of layers of experiences woven with paraphernalia of design motifs, forms and elements derived from miniature paintings. My interest in Mughal, Persian and Rajput miniature paintings has helped me in generating a language of my own. Then it's the Visual experiences in different point of time that I have received consciously and subconsciously that makes its entrance in pictorial surface that is layered with metaphorical and personal references.
Anecdotes and memories of ancestral home and lineage in Bangladesh had played a strong role in my work. Creating patterns remain an integral part of my work and not just as an ornamental design. Rather it becomes an important visual tool to subtly transform experiences –disturbing events and memories through its consistent appearance. This is an attempt to create a visual trope with the imageries, so that they don’t become too didactic but at the same time demands certain attention from the viewer in order to articulate the works.”
About the artist
Hailing from West Bengal, Singha completed her BVA from Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata, and MVA from Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, Baroda. She has participated in several group shows in India between 2011 – 2024 including Young Collector’s Weekend, curated by Farah Siddique and Cultivate Art Global in 2022 and All That is Life curated by Saloni Doshi, Space 118 in 2021. Ekta has held 2 solo shows in 2019 and 2021 respectively.
She has won the FICA Emerging Artist Award in 2020.
The artist currently lives and works in Baroda, India.
